With AirBaltic making headlines recently, Flight Friday examines the airline’s A220 utilization trends since 2023, as operations returned to a post-COVID normal.
By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Daniel Williams, Richard Aboulafia
Ten years after the C Series entered service, editors are joined by Richard Aboulafia to assess the success of what is now the A220 and explain why a decision to stretch it or not is such a conundrum for Airbus.
A 13-strong tranche of JetBlue’s former Embraer 190 E1 fleet is now being placed with new operators around the globe, with the U.S. carrier having now phased out the Brazilian aircraft.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury says the airframer will launch its A320 successor in 2030 as planned, welcoming news that Boeing’s competing program may be delayed.
The Tanzanian government is preparing to instigate significant improvements to domestic and regional air travel with a pair of new and improved airports.
If Airbus does choose to develop a stretched version of the A220, it may come too late for Air France-KLM, according to the airline group's CEO Ben Smith.
Swiss, which was the launch operator of what was then known as the Bombardier CS100, has decided to part out two A220-100s a decade after receiving them.
Breeze Airways doesn’t see an immediate need for a -500 variant of the Airbus A220, concluding the extra seats aren’t necessary for its network profile.
Airbus has launched a Tech Hub in Canada to work with local industry and academia on research projects principally in support of the A220 airliner program.
“Strong and growing demand” for small narrowbody jets (SNJs) was behind Azorra’s purchase of fellow lessor DAE’s portfolio of Airbus A220s, according to a senior Azorra executive.
AirAsia wanted a smaller aircraft to complement its A321neo fleet. The high-density A220-300 could be attractive for low-cost operators elsewhere, too.
